[aur-dev] AUR2 New feature: Package Requests
This morning I was looking for package requests, that I may be able to fill, on the bbs. After a few minutes of flipping through threads, I realised that nobody maintains the forum. These threads do not get edited properly to indicate that a request was filled. Every thread I looked at which seemed to be a request, was in fact already filled. Searching for a valid request seemed impossible. Who know how many threads spanning those 99 pages are actually filled or not? So I figured I may as well make a special section for it on the AUR site. The templates are a bit ugly still, and there's no searching implemented, nor do requests get marked as filled when a package gets submitted, but there's time for that. Here are some screenshots of what's done so far: http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/8855/200801120136181679x759sqm8.png http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/1507/200801120137081679x520seo8.png * http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/6889/200801120137171679x772ste9.png I discussed it with wizzo a bit and decided that comments weren't neccessary, but a "pkgbuild attempt" field would be useful. Any comments/discussion that people may have about the request can reside on the ML or bbs. * Request listing will have an "added" or "requested on" field
On 1/11/08, Sebastian Nowicki <xilonmu@gmail.com> wrote:
This morning I was looking for package requests, that I may be able to fill, on the bbs. After a few minutes of flipping through threads, I realised that nobody maintains the forum. These threads do not get edited properly to indicate that a request was filled. Every thread I looked at which seemed to be a request, was in fact already filled. Searching for a valid request seemed impossible. Who know how many threads spanning those 99 pages are actually filled or not?
So I figured I may as well make a special section for it on the AUR site. The templates are a bit ugly still, and there's no searching implemented, nor do requests get marked as filled when a package gets submitted, but there's time for that. Here are some screenshots of what's done so far:
http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/8855/200801120136181679x759sqm8.png http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/1507/200801120137081679x520seo8.png * http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/6889/200801120137171679x772ste9.png
I discussed it with wizzo a bit and decided that comments weren't neccessary, but a "pkgbuild attempt" field would be useful. Any comments/discussion that people may have about the request can reside on the ML or bbs.
* Request listing will have an "added" or "requested on" field
I don't think I like this kind of thing being tied to the aur code. Requesting a package, or packaging assistance, shouldn't be a formal process. It should be informal, like most community requests for assistance. I think it should just remain a community aspect, and should be just something that happens on the forum or the mailing list.
2008/1/11, eliott <eliott@cactuswax.net>:
On 1/11/08, Sebastian Nowicki <xilonmu@gmail.com> wrote:
This morning I was looking for package requests, that I may be able to fill, on the bbs. After a few minutes of flipping through threads, I realised that nobody maintains the forum. These threads do not get edited properly to indicate that a request was filled. Every thread I looked at which seemed to be a request, was in fact already filled. Searching for a valid request seemed impossible. Who know how many threads spanning those 99 pages are actually filled or not?
So I figured I may as well make a special section for it on the AUR site. The templates are a bit ugly still, and there's no searching implemented, nor do requests get marked as filled when a package gets submitted, but there's time for that. Here are some screenshots of what's done so far:
http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/8855/200801120136181679x759sqm8.png http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/1507/200801120137081679x520seo8.png * http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/6889/200801120137171679x772ste9.png
I discussed it with wizzo a bit and decided that comments weren't neccessary, but a "pkgbuild attempt" field would be useful. Any comments/discussion that people may have about the request can reside on the ML or bbs.
* Request listing will have an "added" or "requested on" field
I don't think I like this kind of thing being tied to the aur code.
Requesting a package, or packaging assistance, shouldn't be a formal process. It should be informal, like most community requests for assistance. I think it should just remain a community aspect, and should be just something that happens on the forum or the mailing list.
There is a "package requests" branch on our forums. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:50:37AM -0800, eliott wrote:
Requesting a package, or packaging assistance, shouldn't be a formal process. It should be informal, like most community requests for assistance. I think it should just remain a community aspect, and should be just something that happens on the forum or the mailing list.
As I mentioned in the previous post, the bbs just does not work. The mailing list doesn't seem like the right place either, since it moves along and posts can be forgotten. It's not really persistent. I think having the requests on the AUR is very logical, it's more automated, organised, easier to search for requests, and filled requests automatically drop off the listing. No maintenance is required since the code does everything. The user is required to give a decent amount of information, which people fail to do on the bbs. Only one account is required to post requests and packages, instead of one for the AUR and one for the bbs. Just because people aren't able to freely post comments and such doesn't mean that there is no community aspect. In my opinion the AUR is very much a community project and I don't see why requests shouldn't be in the same place as the packages.
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eliott
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Roman Kyrylych
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Sebastian Nowicki